Window and curtain guide construction



Dec. 19, 1933. T. w. HOLT 1,940,625

WINDOW AND CURTAIN GUIDE CONSTRUCTION Filed Aug. 8, 1930 11: i :jjIY f: :1: I: g

\ i5 i a a. INVENTOR,

A TTORNEYS Patented Dec. 1 9 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE assignments, to The Syracuse Trust Company, Syracuse, N. Y., a corporation of New York,

trustee Application August 8, 1930. Serial No. 474,026

1 Claim.

This invention relates to window constructions, particularly to windows for railway cars, buses and the like and relates more particularly to the arrangement of a curtain whereby the curtain is entirely closed at its edges against the frame or the window stop so that passengers, particularly occupants of sleeping berths are not annoyed by streaks of light from the outside of the vehicle flashing through the window between the edges of the curtain and the frame or window stop.

The invention consists in the novel features and in the combinations. and constructions hereinafter set forth and claimed.

to the acompanying drawing in which like characters designate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a fragmentary elevation, partly in section, of a window structure embodying my invention.

Figure 2 is an enlarged sectional view on line 22, Figure l. 2

It is well known that in railway cars, particularly Pullman sleeping car berths, passengers are oftentimes annoyed and awakened by rays of light striking them in the eyes when passing through cities and towns, the light entering the berths between the edges of the curtains and the window stops. The principal object of this invention is to close or eliminate the crevices through which such light can penetrate and flash into the eyes of passengers or occupants of the berths.

The window construction comprises, generally,

a frame formed with a sash guide and with a curtain guide, a curtain having means movable along the curtain guide, the curtain guide being so arranged relatively to the inner window stop 40 that the margin of the curtain overlaps the inner stop and hence prevents light rays from a source f attached to the car structure, an inner plate 2' spaced apart from the plate 1 and having angular flanges as the flange 3 at its margin abutting against the base plate 1.

The frame includes outer and inner stops 4, 5 which form a guide for the sash 6. The inner stop 5 has formed integral therewith a curtain guide '7 in the form of a groove. However, this groove is of less height or depth from the bottom outward toward the center of the frame or the sash than the depth of the stop, and the inner wall 8 of the groove is in a plane coincident with the plane of the outer face 9 of the stop.

In describing this invention reference is had The outer wall 10 of the groove is of less height, about one-half the height of the inner stop'from the bottom of the groove.

The inner stop 5 and the curtain guide 7 are formed up of sheet metal, the stop portion being in the form of a channel mounted with its open guide groove '7, it being understood that the opposite sides of the window frame, sash and. curtain are duplicates and hence there are stops 5 and a curtain guide 7 on the right and left sides of the window frame. The means running in the curtainguide may be of any well known construction, that here shown being a fixture 13 formed with antifriction rollers runningalong the groove, the fixture being carried by a tubular support extending transversely of the lower edge of the curtain. The fixture 13 is withdrawable against spring pressure in order to release the curtain so that it can be raised and lowered, by means of pinch handles 14. The construction of the fixture 13 and the operation thereof forms no part of this inven-,- tion.

The margins 15 of the curtain overlie the ,window :stop 9 thus closing the crevice between the edges of the curtain and the window frame or stop against the inlet of light from an outside source.

1 Owing to the arrangement of the curtain guides and the stops 5, the curtain can be mounted so that itsmargins overlap the window stop.

What Iclaim is: r In a window construction, the combination of a window frame including a stop and a curtain guide in the form of a groove at the outer side of the stop, the groovehaving one side wall in a plane coincident with the outer face of the stop and its other side wall of less heighth from the bottom of the groove than the stop,'a sash in the frame and a curtain having guide means projecting beyond the edgeofthe curtain and running in the groove, the margins of the curtain overlapping the outer face of the stop outside'of said- 

